Author: Stuart

Orange Business logged a pattern across the Middle East and Africa by early June 2026: enterprises weren’t asking how to recover faster anymore. They wanted systems that never stopped running in the first place. The shift reflects a sobering calculation. When infrastructure faces prolonged instability—whether from geopolitical flare-ups, power disruptions, or cascading failures—traditional disaster recovery planning offers cold comfort. Restore services after an incident? Fine for a server crash. Less useful when conditions remain volatile for weeks. CIOs across the MEA region are rewiring their thinking. Out: reactive recovery plans gathering dust in binders. In: architectures designed to maintain critical…

Bitget launched 36 tokenized stocks and ETFs on Tuesday, letting users collect dividends in USDT rather than traditional currency. Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are among the equities now tradable through the crypto exchange’s upgraded platform. The move marks the second major iteration of Bitget’s tokenized stock offering. Called Stocks 2.0, the product connects users to real equity market liquidity whilst keeping everything denominated in stablecoins. Cash dividends get converted to USDT and dropped into account balances. Stock dividends, splits, and reverse splits get reflected in token positions automatically, maintaining alignment with the underlying shares. Bitget processed more than $1…

Mohammed Ben Sulayem will be trackside at Monaco this Sunday, where the FIA President intends to witness what he calls one of the “great jewels” of motorsport during the 2026 season’s first European round. The street circuit remains. Ben Sulayem’s appearance at the Louis Vuitton Grand Prix de Monaco comes as Formula 1 navigates a significant regulatory overhaul this season, with new technical rules reshaping the championship. Against that backdrop of change, the FIA President positioned Monte Carlo as a reminder of the sport’s essence. “The Monaco Grand Prix is one of the great jewels of world motorsport,” he said.…

Seventy-two per cent of accountants working across the Middle East aspire to launch their own businesses or pursue entrepreneurial career paths, according to research released on Tuesday that reveals a profession in the throes of radical transformation. Among female finance professionals, the figure reaches 62%—one of the highest rates recorded globally. The findings, drawn from ACCA’s annual Global talent trends survey, paint a portrait of a workforce increasingly restless within traditional roles and hungry for careers that deliver social impact alongside commercial returns. More than 11,000 finance professionals across 160 countries participated in the fourth-year study, including 570 respondents from…

Transguard Group now grants 85 calendar days of fully paid maternity leave to eligible staff, a figure that significantly exceeds the UAE’s statutory minimum. The Dubai-based business solutions provider revealed on Sunday that it has extended equivalent entitlements to employees adopting infants or taking permanent guardianship of young children. The policy applies to all female employees who have completed one year of service, regardless of their role or function within the organisation. It marks a substantial leap beyond the baseline protections mandated under UAE Labour Law. What sets the initiative apart is the newly introduced adoption leave framework. Employees of…

Three years running. EZVIZ secured its third consecutive Plus X Award on Tuesday, claiming the Design Innovator 2026 title in smart home technology with products that prioritise sleek housings over feature bloat. The Hoofddorp-based firm took home two accolades this year. Its flagship HP7 video doorphone and smart entry product family convinced the Plus X Award jury—a panel that evaluates innovation, design, and user experience across consumer technology. The hat-trick marks unusual consistency in a category where rivals typically rotate through winners annually. What sets EZVIZ apart, according to chief product officer Grant Chen, is restraint. While competitors chase ever-longer…

A single artificial intelligence scan identified more than 8,200 low-income households that had slipped through traditional eligibility screening for energy assistance programmes—a finding that will anchor discussions when energy retailers gather in London next month. Bidgely, the California-based energy analytics firm serving over 50 million homes globally, hosts its EmPOWER AI conference in London from 10th to 12th June. The three-day forum marks the European leg of an international tour that has already stopped in Toronto and New York. The 8,200 figure emerged from Bidgely’s Analytics Workbench, which one undisclosed energy provider used to scan customer data for vulnerable households…

Dr Mohammed Said Farsi transformed Jeddah’s coastline into an outdoor sculpture gallery during his three decades as mayor. Among the works he collected privately was something more intimate: an oil painting on gold paper by a woman who once wore Egypt’s crown. That painting goes under the hammer on 3rd June at Olympia Auctions in London. Abstract Landscape, created by Queen Farida—Egypt’s former queen consort who reinvented herself as an artist after her world collapsed—has been in a private collection since 2013. The estimate sits at £7,000 to £9,000. Farida’s story doesn’t follow the usual script for deposed royalty. Born…

Frank Clyburn built one of oncology’s most profitable franchises from the ground up. Keytruda, the pembrolizumab immunotherapy he shepherded at Merck, reshaped cancer treatment and generated tens of billions in revenue. Now he’s joining the board of Real Chemistry, a healthcare marketing and analytics firm betting its future on artificial intelligence. The appointment landed Tuesday alongside a second board addition: Christopher Fikry, the physician-turned-executive who led clinical trial data provider Clario before Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired it. For Real Chemistry, the dual hires signal ambition. The 2,400-person firm operates at the intersection of pharmaceutical commercialisation and AI-driven audience insights—a market…

Damco Solutions has modernized 200 million lines of legacy code across 31 enterprise programs. On 5th May, Gartner named the Princeton-based firm a Representative Vendor in its 2026 Market Guide for Mainframe and Legacy System Professional and Managed Services. The recognition focuses specifically on Damco’s IBM i and AS400 modernization work—the unglamorous backbone of banking, manufacturing, and insurance systems that still process billions in transactions daily. While competitors have diversified into cloud and mobile, Damco built its entire operation around keeping decades-old systems alive. Founded in 1996, the company has never strayed from its original mission. “We believe this recognition…